Coffee-house jests. Refined and enlarged. By the author of the Oxford jests. The fourth edition, with large additions. This may be re-printed, Feb. 25. 1685. R.P.

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A very great Student, that had written many excellent Books, and one among the rest was, he had wrote a History of the whole World: This said Student it seems had lost himself in a Wood, because he took little notice of the Path; being still in a musing condition: At last being wea∣ry, and his Stomach crying Cupboard also, began very seriously to endeavour to get out of the Wood; and after he had wan∣dered about a great while, he met by chance with a Country Man that liv'd near Oxford and was then going thither to Market (which Country Man knew him very well)

then he desired him to guide him out of the Wood, and he'd give him Six pence, Sir, says he, I do admire very much, that you that have writ a Tract of the whole World, should not now find the Tract out of this little Wood? Friend, says he, I think thou art Wood: Sir, says he, if I am mad, I am not fit to be your guide, but you speak as if you mere in a wood: Yes faith, says the Student, so I am; and I would fain get out on't if I could.